Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Everyone had a good time watching the new Star Wars so let’s not get angry and accuse each other of not enjoying the very idea of fun. But still, as with every other movie, there were a few problems and mid-sized logic gaps that were ignored in the name of entertainment. HISHE fixes all those…
In the last scene of Galaxy Quest, we see the once-washed-up actors, previously stuck in a decades-long hell of fan expos and ribbon-cuttings, back on the airwaves in a brand new show for the next generation of sci-fi fans! …Or so we think. There’s actually much, much more to it. And it involves energy-hungry feds…
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. In a few weeks, Leonardo DiCaprio will very likely win an Oscar for his performance in The Revenant. This result is just shy of a foregone conclusion not because DiCaprio’s turn as frontier trapper Hugh Glass is so…
Do you ever listen to electronic music and think, “You know what would make this better? Star Wars samples!” You’re not alone, apparently: legendary producer Rick Rubin is curating a new EDM compilation called Star Wars Headspace, a sort of companion piece for the December’s The Force Awakens in which a dozen popular producers monkey…
The zillions of tie-in stories for The Force Awakens revealed there was going to be a scene in the movie where Leia acknowledged that her former colleagues in the Senate were just as likely to want to have her killed as they were to ignore her. A new Star Wars novel is going to explore…
Share. Fly to Gotham City and Metropolis. By Jim Vejvoda Turkish Airlines called upon Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice characters Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor to tout their respective hometowns in two new ads dropped on Super Bowl Sunday. The commercials seen below feature Ben Affleck and Jesse Eisenberg as their characters to sell…
It wiped out all three of the original X-Men films. Guess we know how Fox is going to reboot X-Men. This was probably inevitable, since the X-Men prequels were lurching closer and closer to when the 2000 movie took place. After the 80s-based Apocalypse they either had the choice to ditch the “one movie per…
Deadpool fans are already getting a movie that can encapsulate the gory wildness of Wade Wilson in all is splendor, considering the film carries an R-rating. But are you in the market for even more curses, bodily viscera, and nudity in your superhero movies? Well, you might just be getting your wish. At a recent…
WALL STREET: Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in the hugely popular original film [] THIS Wednesday a new film is released, one of the most hotly anticipated openings in years. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to one of the most famous and best movies of the Eighties, the film that…
There is nothing in the world that can keep me from watching this movie. This movie is where Kevin Spacey’s punishment for working too hard and ignoring his family is being turned into a cat by Christopher Walken. I do not know what caused Barry Sonnenfeld to bring his directorial skills to this. I also…